The Air Force completed the first unmanned QF-16 full scale aerial target flight earlier this month, starting a two-year process to phase out the QF-4 aerial target. Two Air Force test pilots in a ground control station remotely flew the Boeing- [BA] developed QF-16, which is a retired F-16 jet modified to be an aerial target capable of both manned and unmanned flight. The QF-16 performed a series of simulated maneuvers, supersonic flight and an auto-land, all without a pilot…
Unmanned QF-16 Completes First Flight
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